April 22, 2008

Sentiments/Word stamps

Does anyone feel lost in the world of sentiment/word stamps? I do. With the ever increasing number of stamp companies, there's a deluge of choices. The stamp companies are growing just like the disk meter on your Gmail account! So I decided to list down all the various sentiments/word stamp sets that I know, how complete they are and what's their effect on the wallet. It would be a lot of help if you know some stamp set and I haven't listed it here.

Hope this survey would be helpful to all those out there who're trying to decide which sentiment set to pick! Your suggestions and comments are most welcome.

Below is a comparison table. To me, for a sentiment stamp set to be complete it should at least have the words Birthday (BD), Anniversary (AN), Congratulations (CO), Thank You (TY), Get Well (GW), Sympathy (SY) and Baby (BB). Or if it's a greetings stamp then it should've appropriate stamps for the above occasions. So the table has one column for each of these. A cell contains "Y" if the set contains that word, otherwise it's empty. Then comes flexibility if it's a word set then flexibility is determined by the accent words like Happy, For, On your, etc. If it's a greetings set then by the presence of more than one greeting for a given occasion. The third column is for price. This column contains:

$ - if the set costs between $10-$15 (included).

$$ - for $15-$20 ($15 excluded)

$$$ - anything greater than $20

The sets are listed in the same order as they are listed above.

Set

BD

AN

CO

TY

GW

SY

BB

Flexible

Price

S1

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$

S2

Y

Y

Y

$

S3

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$$

S4

Y

Y

Y

$$

S5

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$$

S6

Y

Y

Y

$$

S7

Y

Y

Y

Y

$$

S8

Y

Y

$$

S9

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$$

S10

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$

S11

Y

Y

Y

Y

$

S12

Y

Y

Y

Y

$$

S13

Y

Y

$

S14

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$$

S15

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$$

W1

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$

W2

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$

W3

Y

Y

Y

$$

W4

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$$

W5

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$$

W6

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

$$$

Conclusion:

The Sentiments I and II by Impression Obsession seem to be the most complete and versatile word set (and cheap). "Never Loss 4 Words" is also as good just that it's a little expensive.

After that we've "Flourished Words", "Mini Sentiments" and "All Occassions".

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